Texting and Facebook Become Campus Security Tools
Virginia Tech lessons push colleges to deploy instant alerts. St Johns in Queens used inCampusAlert text messages within 18 minutes after a masked freshman with a rifle incident. UW Madison ran a Facebook alert, signaling a shift toward rapid digital notices for campus crises.
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Facebook
Virginia Tech
New York
St. John’s University
University of Wisconsin
James Pellow
St. John's
Queens
St. John’s
Uw-Madison
Seung-Hui Cho
Cho
Omnitert
Leesburg
California
MIR3 Inc
Wisconsin
Public Safety
Medical examiner details Virginia Tech victims handling
In a report by Dr. Marcella Fierro, the Virginia Tech massacre morgue surge is described. Investigators moved 33 bodies amid blood pools, with autopsies in Roanoke and high casualty loads. Ringing phones unsettled staff as families searched for loved ones, while scientists pursued identification through fingerprints and dental records to avoid error.
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Chicago
Virginia Tech
Marcella Fierro
Fierro
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal
Seung-Hui Cho
Robert Stroube
Virginia
Associated Press
Stroube
All types of alcohol raise breast cancer risk in women
European researchers led by Arthur Klatsky found wine beer and liquor carry similar breast cancer risks for women. Women drinking one to two drinks daily faced about a 10 percent increase. more than three daily drinks raised risk roughly 30 percent. Experts urged awareness and public education while noting genetics obesity and age also influence risk.
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Barcelona
Spain
Patrick Maisonneuve
European Institute of Oncology
Italy
Arthur Klatsky
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
Oakland
Calif
European Cancer Organization
Klatsky
Tim Key
Cancer Research
UK Epidemiology Unit
Oxford
Key
British Journal of Cancer
United Kingdom
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Cancer Research UK
Carbondale Farmer's Market
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Park
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